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Artistic Connections Between the Chichen Itza Toltec and the Classic Maya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2021

Robert L. Rands
Robert L. Rands*
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of MississippiUniversity, Mississippi
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A recent development of some interest in Maya archaeology has been the appearance of several studies showing rather unexpected connections between the art of the Toltec period at Chichen Itza and that of the late Great period in the Classic centers to the south. Inferentially, this may indicate the approximate contemporaneity of the Chichen Itza Toltec and the late Classic Maya. Such a reconstruction is not only a far cry from the outmoded concept of “Old” and “New Empires” but, as Lothrop (1952, p. 112) points out, challenges the generally favored 11.16 (Goodman-Martinez- Thompson) correlation of the Maya and Christian calendars. Three studies may be cited as of particular importance in emphasizing the affinity of Chichen Toltec and Classic Maya art. Monographs by Proskouriakoff (1950) and Lothrop (1952) deal, respectively, with sculptured monuments from the Maya area as a whole and with metal objects from the sacred cenote at Chichen Itza. A paper by the present writer (Rands, 1953) is concerned with portrayals of a single motif, the water lily, in the Maya area.

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American Antiquity , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1953 , pp. 281 - 282
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1954

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